Cybersecurity’s Tower of Babel: Why we are still lost in translation
When leadership teams and security functions operate in different languages of risk, critical signals might be dismissed until the problem has escalated
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BUSINESS leaders like to believe that in a crisis, the enterprise will instinctively pull together. Experience suggests otherwise.
The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a useful reminder: Projects do not fail because of a lack of ambition; they fail because people stop understanding one another.
Today’s corporate world is living out a digital version of that myth. Boards, leadership teams and IT departments confront the same cybersecurity threats, but describe them in mutually unintelligible languages.
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